ng a friend, and the napkins
usually serve for two or three meals, then neatly fold it. Many
families have clean napkins once a day, that is, at dinner.

The chair should either be pushed quite back from the table, or close
to it, so that others may easily pass by.

If obliged to leave the table in the midst of a meal, one should
address the hostess, saying, "Please excuse me," as he rises.

_Anniversaries_

The observance of family festivals is a great bond of union when there
are different ages and temperaments and interests represented in the
family circle. In the home holidays, all meet on a common ground, and
get once more into touch with each other. Yet the observance of such
festivals should never be more elaborate than the purse will justify,
nor should it be allowed to become a burden upon any one, even the
most willing. The festive spirit is lost if it becomes obligatory.

The observance of wedding anniversaries is usually an honored custom
in the case of happy marriages, where children grow up who take
delight in making much of the days which are sacred to their parents.
Where this observance is not a matter of form or done with any
ulterior motive, but is spontaneous and joyous, it adds much to the
family happiness and strengthens the bonds, not only between parents
but between parents and children.

It is customary to make gifts of the sort signified in the name of
the anniversary, and much ingenuity can be exercised in carrying out
the idea. The anniversaries are named as follows:

At the end of the first year comes a cotton wedding; at the end of the
second, a paper wedding; the third, a linen wedding; the fifth, a
wooden; the tenth, a tin wedding; the fifteenth, a crystal; the
twentieth, linen; the twenty-fifth, silver; the thirtieth, pearl;
fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, a golden wedding; and the sixtieth, a
diamond wedding.

These anniversaries may be added to, as by celebrating a leather
wedding the third year, instead of two of linen; a woolen one the
seventh; and a china one the twelfth.

A birthday anniversary is a momentous event in the life of a child.
Disregard of it is a heart-breaking slight. The celebrations of these
events, even in families where they are numerous and resources few,
can be made joyous if there is love enough to do it, even without
money.

_The Giving of Presents_

The members of a family who have each other's welfare at heart, often
have the impulse to give eac